You'll learn how to design letters, posters and newsletters how to work out your holiday budgets and manage your address book with Excel how to create a photo album with PowerPoint and how to keep a recipe book using OneNote.
Through a series of projects, it shows you how to make the most of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. My book Microsoft Office for the Older and Wiser is out now. You should see two OK buttons on screen, and you have to click the one on the smaller window first.
There's more information on how to use the proofing and spelling tools in Microsoft Word in my book Microsoft Office for the Older and Wiser, but here's a quick guide to turning off AutoCorrect: Most of the time, AutoCorrect is a big help, but you can turn it off if you prefer. This type of predictive text is called AutoCorrect. In Microsoft Word, there is a feature that will change your words as you type to correct what Word believes are spelling errors. Click OK in the bottom right of the options menu.It's hidden in the bottom right corner of the menu's frame, to the left of the Exit Excel button. To turn off the predictive text/Autocomplete feature in Excel 2007, follow these steps: Untick the box beside 'Enable AutoComplete for cell values'.In the new window that opens, click Advanced, on the left.It's in smaller text, just above the red Exit button. You can just keep typing to override it, but it's easy to make a slip and end up with something you didn't want in there. While you're typing content into a cell, Excel will automatically complete what you're typing if it looks like you're repeating something in a similar cell. In Microsoft Excel, the predictive text feature is called Autocomplete. NEW: Check out my new book 100 Top Tips: Microsoft Excel! Turning off Autocomplete in Excel 2010
The reader writes: "It is driving me mad and nothing I have tried so far has worked to make it stop." If you're in the same boat, I hope this will help. I received an email from someone asking how to turn off the predictive text in Excel and Word, so I thought I'd write this article to explain how to turn it off. How to turn off predictive text (autocomplete or autocorrect) in Excel and Word